Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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